Bible Verses

It was at the end of these four hundred and thirty years to the very day that the armies of the Lord left Egypt.

The Israelites had been in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they made cakes of unleavened bread. It had not risen, for when they were driven from Egypt, they could not delay and had not even provided themselves with food.

Many other people of all descriptions went with them, as well as sheep and cattle in droves.

The Israelites left Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand on the march, counting the men only, not the children.

The Lord made the Egyptians agree to the requests of his people and give them what they asked for. In this way, they plundered the Egyptians.

They did as Moses had instructed them and borrowed from the Egyptians articles of gold, silver, and clothes.

So the Israelites carried away on their shoulders the dough, which had not yet risen, and their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks.

The Egyptians, too, pressed the people to leave the country in all haste. For they said, “If they don’t go, we are all going to die.”

Take your sheep and cattle, as you told me, and go! Provided that the blessing be for me as well.”